I've just been searching for a story I read in the last few days, but I can't find it or the source that led me to it. However, in the article it claimed that over 90% of Saudis supported IS.It was entitled something like the real story of ISIS and I think it was on an Indian site. I'll try to remember more, but I'm not hopeful.

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Stephen Hawking

Here's the link for the full results of the survey of Muslims in Britain for the C4 programme going out tomorrow night. It's long and very detailed and although I've only had a glance it promises to be very revealing. For instance, it shows the relative proportion born here or outside the country, for responders in different regions. Some differences are quite marked and in London 68% were foreign-born compared with 36% in "Yorkshire and the Humber".http://www.icmunlimited.com/data/media/pdf/Mulims-full-suite-data-plus-topline.pdfBTW it's not as recent as you might expect - it was done in Spring last year so has been kept under wraps for rather a long time. I looked it up because of a claim (according to the Daily Mail) that it was skewed because it selected people in "deprived areas".

However, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said it ‘did not recognise’ Mr Phillips’ analysis, which was based on a Channel 4 poll for a documentary tomorrow night.

It also questioned the decision to survey some of the most deprived neighbourhoods in the UK with a disproportionately high number of people with a Pakistani or Bangladeshi ethnicity.

It comes amid fears of a divide in society. Pictured is a muslim woman in a niqab selling ice cream to a child in Dewsbury (file picture)

‘Choosing specifically to poll in areas that are poor and more religiously conservative, skews the results and makes it indicative of these areas and not of British Muslims nationally,’ the MCB said.

Interesting, but what a pity it doesn't include Western Europe or the Americas. Particularly the latter, where Muslims will be most distant from the origin and traditions of Islam. I.e. for (or should that be from?) whom there might be more hope.

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Stephen Hawking